Nayab Singh Saini To Take Oath As Haryana Chief Minister Today, PM Modi, Top BJP Leaders To Attend

Nayab Singh Saini will take oath as the Chief Minister of Haryana on Thursday, days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured an unprecedented third term in the state, winning 48 seats in the 90-member assembly. With the BJP forming the government for a third time in a row in Haryana, Saini will be taking oath as the Chief Minister for the second time.

The ceremony will be held in Panchkula, and Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya will administer the oath of office and secrecy.

Before taking the oath, Saini offered prayers at the Valmiki Temple in Panchkula today, on the occasion of Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti.

On Wednesday, Saini met Governor Dattatreya and staked claim to form the next government after he was unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party in a meeting held at the party office in Panchkula.

WHO ALL WILL ATTEND SAINI’s OATH

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP’s top leadership, among others, will be attending Saini’s oath-taking ceremony. In total, nearly 50,000 people were expected to attend the mega event, news agency PTI quoted party leaders as saying.

Several Union Ministers, including Rajnath Singh and JP Nadda, who is also the BJP president, chief ministers of many states, and senior party leaders will also attend the oath-taking event.

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose also arrived in Chandigarh today morning to attend the ceremony.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai and both his deputies – Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma, will be attending the event.

On Tuesday, Haryana BJP chief Mohan Lal Badoli said while PM Modi, Union Ministers, chief ministers of the BJP-ruled states and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners will attend the oath-taking function, Opposition leaders of various parties, ‘progressive farmers’, ‘Lakhpati Didis’ and people from various social organisations have also been invited.

SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS

Massive security arrangements have been made in the wake of the swearing-in ceremony. A total of 14 LED screens will be installed at the event venue so that people can witness the function.

A traffic advisory has also been issued ahead of the swearing-in event.

HARYANA ELECTION RESULT

In the October 5 Haryana polls, the BJP won 48 seats in the 90-member assembly and secured an unprecedented third term in the state. The Congress won 37 seats.

In a departure from tradition, the BJP had declared that Saini would remain Chief Minister if the party returned to power in Haryana after the assembly polls.

Saini had replaced Manohar Lal Khattar as the Chief Minister of Haryana in March.

Saini, an Other Backward Class (OBC) face of the party, had won the Ladwa seat in Kurukshetra district.

Saini’s elevation from the Haryana BJP president to Chief Minister in March came at a time when the party was facing anti-incumbency following Khattar’s tenure of nine-and-a-half years and attacks from a buoyant opposition on farmers’ issues, unemployment, Agnipath scheme, inflation, and law and order.

Days after Saini was brought in by the BJP, the Model Code of Conduct came into effect with the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections, and later ahead of the assembly elections, effectively giving him only two months to shift the public perception.